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At least they haven't been scored against. YOU DIDN'T HEAR THAT, FATE.

More points for the Angry Larry line, too.

Haha! The hockey Gods pay Scandy back!

HEY! THOSE ARE MY SEATS! ...just kidding. They're my neighbor's seats.

That second chance for Larry - that puck was going crazy, it would have been lucky or highly skillful to swat that one in.

Absolutely.

Finally, a goal from the Angry Larry line. They definitely earned that. Also, that was the best period I've seen from Vesey. This is a very fun, but tight game. Woe be those who could not watch it! Scandella saved Ullmark's bacon.

I can't talk now, Dan, there are people in bubbles on the ice. - R. Dahlin

Fun period, lots of drama.

Krueger vs. Quenneville, mark it. The guy we have vs. the guy a lot of Sabres fans wanted. This game means more than just the historical win/loss record.

No, they weren't. And a big F^^K you for turning it political.

JFC

This is exactly how it is.

If anything, this is the root of the problem. Insurance funds the treatments. They want to pay as little as possible. The doctors don't want to get sued, nor do the hospitals, so they may act with an overabundance of caution (because, ironically, their insurance will skyrocket, or worse, drop). Since insurance doesn't want to pay for excessive treatment, and they don't want to pay off lawsuits, this causes all sorts of dissonance with the people in between the doctors, the nurses, the billing people, the administrators. The administrators are often a bunch of type As whose egos, and lack of wisdom (frankly), make them focus on the wrong things. They are pushed by hospital boards to find a way to balance budgets. With any organization, like a hospital or medical group, the survival of the organization is always the first goal. Not treatment, not saving lives, not outcomes, all of that is second or third to the survival of the organization. So these administrators think they are doing well by instituting plan D of 2019 (different from plan D of 2018, or 2017). Meanwhile, all of this ridiculousness and lack of focus are handed down the line. The workers, the nursing staff, the janitors, the engineers, the marketing department, the therapists, the PAs, they are worried about the survival of themselves first. Most go along with the ridiculousness handed down rather than upset their lives. Some aren't bothered, but many are, because, after all, they went into the health care industry for a reason. So they work under threat: some are hiding anger, some are hiding anxiety, some hide depression. All of this effects the results of the care they are supposed to provide. Some provide better care than others. Some don't give a da^m so long as they keep their job. Some break down. And, with so many people involved, you will always, always run across outliers of every type: super God-sends, evil people who do things out of malice, people who are so broken they miss stuff, some who are sociopaths and miss stuff intentionally. This latter group, again, are outliers, not representative of the normal, or the even the abnormal, but they exist in healthcare just like they do everywhere else. The point is to illustrate there are all types of people with all types of motivations. In the health care industry, especially, there is pressure coming down from all sides. Most of it begins and ends with financial pressures. This is barely even scratching the complexities of the situation, the webs that are interconnected and that are constantly changing. And all of these people, ALL of them, are male and female, Caucasian, African American, Hispanic, Asian, Catholics, Muslims, Jews, Atheists, Taoists, you name it, the spectrum of all types and backgrounds are represented by the 2019 health care workforce. The health care system is broken down, and six women are wrongly diagnosed with cancer, not because society is preying on women, not because they are women, but because it's such a complex system, things are bound to f*ck up somewhere and we, the people, have determined that a certain amount of f*cking up is acceptable, and a worthwhile sacrifice to retain the routines, comforts, and luxuries the majority of people - men and women, black, white and otherwise, benefit from as those individuals in the majority define "benefit" for themselves (meaning, the benefiting might not be equal, but it is acceptable by all). It's sick and demented to imply a white male card is all that is needed to get better care. My brother died before he was 52 from cancer and went bankrupt trying to fight it. His widow, a woman, BTW, has suffered mightily because his white male card apparently didn't work, was lost, or was otherwise ineffective. My uncle died young of cancer, too, penniless. His white male card was worthless as well.

I wish my brother was misdiagnosed.

I would posit that because the Sabres are going to the net more, Dahlin doesn't have as clear lanes as he did last season.

They give our skill guys a chance to rest without worrying that resting period will put them in a hole. Additionally, as @Randall Flaggpointed out, they keep the momentum going in favour of our team, and allow our skill guys to get on the ice usually with possession, and, again, with momentum in the team's favor. If the Angry Larry line is out there fore-checking, tiring down the enemy D, and the enemy can't change players out, but we can, who has the advantage? Hell yeah. That's super high value, right there, that is not exposed in any metric.

There is no "fourth line".

Did they now? Interesting.

We most certainly need to trade some players and add offense. Vlad is bad. BAD, I say. The best offense he can provide we may have seen from him last night and he's still at 0 points. The fact that he has no assists only means his face-off presence isn't all that meaningful. He does not belong on any NHL second line.

Risto looks like Risto. I think the only thing I have seen less of from him, but not by much, is errant dump-ins.

He's found a role that he can contribute to in the twilight of his career. It's not his fault he was signed to that contract - some around here like to make the argument that these guys should get paid a lot of money to set themselves up for retirement. Well, we have our dude getting paid a lot of money, setting himself up for retirement. At the very least he's effective.

I was complaining about Vlad. Vlad is bad. Paul Ham-Sammich said this morning that RK has pulled Victor late in the third when we're nursing a lead in prior games already. I suspected this was the case and agree that's probably the reason. The Angry Larry line is effectively the third line, maybe even the second line in TOI (haven't checked). I barely noticed Mitts line expect the one pass from Mitts that could have been a goal, and then Mitts following that with a no-look pass that resulted in another turn-over. skip, skip I think I agree with you on Tage. I don't want to, but I think I do.